We both let things get out of hand last night. Granted, we had both agreed that maybe us being together until we could figure out this thing between Julius and I, but that didn't last long after Silas grabbed me and kissed me. We were mad about each other. I pulled him closer to me and kissed him back. Feverishly we ravished each other, before we even left the kitchen. Actually, I think we managed to dirty up the kitchen a bit. There were pots and pans everywhere, glasses shattered on the floor. I pulled up on his shirt and played with his pants while he took my clothes off as he kissed me all over. He lifted me up on the counter and took me right then and there in the kitchen. It was full of heat, full of passion and full of lust that both of us had for each other.

Breathlessly we made love and in more than one place. Once we were tired of the kitchen, Silas picked me up and pushed me against the wall of the foyer and then on the leather couch, the glass cabinet, and finally on the fur rug in front of the roaring fire. By the time we got there, movements weren't so feverish, they were slow and romantic. We ended up cuddling on the rug when we were both finished. Silas, who had bitten me during the course of our love making was healing my wounds with a bit of his blood and then stroking the areas that he healed before kissing them. The coolness of his touch made me shiver.

My back was against his chest and I turned my head around to look at him, "So much for staying away, huh?"

Silas laughed, "I guess so". He smiled. A full, all teeth showing smile. It was just as beautiful on his face as any other expression he wore as he bent his neck down to kiss me on the lips once more. "I could get used to this kind of distance."

I turned over and pressed my bare breasts against his cool chest, wrapping my arms around him, "I never wanted distance to begin with, I was just agreeing to your request."

Silas's hand cupped my cheek as he smirked at me again, "I never wanted it either, but it is for the best, you know that?" His gaze went from humoring to very serious, as did the line of his mouth.

I looked up into his eyes, I wasn't sure if he was trying to break this apart now, even after what we did tonight, it would be earth shattering for me, but I knew he was right. Until we could figure out a way to break the bond in full, we couldn't continue this. I didn't want to start beating the crap out of him in the middle of a love making session because Julius, who was now a human, could get angry and manipulate my feelings. That would be awkward. I just nodded my head in agreement once again, knowing that he was 100 percent right, no matter how much I wanted him to be wrong.

I started to feel weird then. I wasn't sure if it was my stomach or what, but it seemed like my head was swimming as I lay back down and closed my eyes. I felt like something was pulling me, as if my insides were being drawn into some sort of black hole within myself. My hand went to my stomach as I winced in pain.

"Are you alright?" Silas asked as I groaned.

"I'm not sure. Something's wrong. I just don't know what it is." I said, but soon I would.

"Well, well, well. Why doesn't this surprise me?" Julius's voice boomed as he entered the room. "Quite a shame no one asked me to join in. From what I could tell, it was an amazing fucking session."

Julius walked over to the floor where we lie. Silas got up immediately and threw a blanket over my naked body as he stood there in all his glory in front of his cousin. He wasn't ashamed as I took the blanket and threw it over my bare breasts. I couldn't bare to look him in the eye. I knew how Julius felt about me. Not because I could feel it, but because he told me all the time. It was non-stop chatter about how we were right for each other and how I belonged to him and always have. And when I asked him to indulge me on the reasons why I was always his, he would clam up and refuse to answer my questions. It made our relationship terribly one sided. Not that I wanted a serious relationship with Julius, my heart belonged to Silas. But there was something so frighteningly familiar about Julius that drew me to him regardless of the bond. "You were asleep" I said in hushed tones.

"Hush, woman!" Julius shouted at me, which caused me to wince again, afraid that he'd raise a hand to me. Not that he ever had before, but this was pure rage. Even more than I felt in the bar, but it was a dull sensation inside me. It wasn't over powering like it had been before. That must be because the bond was weakened when Julius was turned. "Why cousin? Why do you deceive me again?"

"I do not decieve you, Julius. Ani and I...we love each other." Silas said, squaring his shoulders, looking at Julius in the eyes, seeing the emerald green they would always be, knowing that no matter what Julius said or did, he couldn't hurt Silas. Silas knew that.

"She is mine!" Julius shouted and pushed Silas, who didn't as much as move. Julius's brows furrowed in confusion as he attempted to push Silas again, but with no avail.

"You can't hurt me, Julius," Silas said lazily, almost yawning at Julius's attempts to defeat him. Even though Julius was over five thousand years old, he had the strength of a human, not a five thousand year old Vampyre anymore.

"What is wrong with me? Why does my stomach turn? Why doesn't my rage fuel me? I used to feel her," he pointed angrily at me, "strongly, now it is severed or very weak. What has happened to me?" Julius sounded and looked frantic.

I stood up, wrapping the blanket around myself and tapped Silas on his shoulder. He hadn't responded, or he didn't know how to respond. I wouldn't know either how to tell him, but I figured I could give it a try. "Why don't you change, I'll talk to him."

Silas nodded and walked away from Julius who was aghast at the fact his cousin, who he was close to, just simply walked away from him, mid argument. "Sit, there is much to discuss." I offered the couch to Julius who looked at me with scorn.

"My stomach, it aches" Julius said as he sat. "Why does it ache?"

"Because you're hungry. Do you want something to eat?" I asked, thinking of a way to gently tell him that he no longer required blood to live.

"But I am not feeling a thirst craving," he said as he looked at me with confusion. "I had my fill the other night, fighting the wolves."

"Yeah, I guess you did. But maybe you need something to eat, instead of drink. You know, like some eggs, or bacon, a biscuit maybe?" I eased.

"Why would I require such things? I am a Vampyre! I do not need human food. You know this Anabelle," he scolded me.

"Well then, Mr. Vampyre, if you think you know everything, then why does your stomach ache? Huh? Does it grumble? Because I sure as hell can hear it. Sounds to me like someone is hungry," I pointed out.

"Anabelle, please, be straight with me," Julius grabbed my hands and held them in his own. His eyes were searching and I could feel that in himself, he felt lost. He was confused and I wasn't sure how I was going to untangle the web in his head. "What is wrong with me? I remember a large wolf descending on me, but then nothing. What happened?"

I took a big breath, but before I could say anything, I was interrupted. "You were bitten by a Werewolf," Silas said as he strode into the room with some extra roomy sweat pants on and a tight grey thermal shirt. He looked yummy.

Julius eyed me again when he felt my lust for Silas. His eyes looked sad as a single tear dropped from the corner. "What does that mean for me?"

"I called Ilona. She came to inspect you. Seems that there was nothing she could do." Silas said as I got up and patted Silas on the shoulder, giving him the way to talk to Julius as I got up and went into the kitchen to fix something for not only myself, but for Julius to eat. I'm sure now being a human and not eaten food in centuries had to do a number on her stomach. So I opened the fridge and rummaged through what Silas had. Which wasn't much. Silas did say that they could eat normal food as long as they were full on blood to allow the body to function correctly. Or at least for Julius and him, they had not encountered any other Vampyres that were able to do so, though Julius rarely, if he ever ate food.

There was at least some eggs, and some meat in the fridge, so I took them out and grabbed a pan, that was still sitting on the floor from where we knocked it over and set it on the stove to warm. I cracked and beat the eggs and put them into the hot pan. Once they were cooked I placed the meat in the pan and browned up each side before platting it all with some water from the fridge. I walked out in the living area just as the conversation was getting heated.

"What do you mean that I'm human? Is that even possible?" Julius asked, standing in defiance.

"According to Ilona it is. She said if you lived, you would be human, because in one way or another a wolf bite kills. So yes, for now, you are human." Silas agreed and tried to get him to calm down.

Julius paced the living room until his eyes fixed on me, with two plates in his hands. "And you knew all along?"

"I only knew once Ilona came to see if she could help you. You wouldn't wake. I couldn't get you to take my blood either. I tried." I felt the tears swell up in my eyes.

"So you came here to save me and yet you bed with my cousin?" Julius snapped at me.

I swallowed hard, "I probably deserved that, but you know that my feelings for you weren't the same as they were for Silas. I've told you countless times. We. Are. Just. Friends. Period. Nothing else about it. You can't continue to control me with your anger and envy any longer. You won't control me just because you seem to think that you belong with me. I'm not a piece of property!"

I was furious at that point and it was my own fury. I was pointing my finger in his chest, making my point to him known. Each time, I jabbed him harder and he continued to back up, each time saying, "Ow!" and looking down at his chest as if someone had staked him. "I am no ones piece of property. Not yours, not Silas's, not any ones! Now if you can't accept that, then you should just leave."

"Ani..." Silas tried to interupt, but it was too late.

Julius looked defeated. Wet tears started to fill his eyes as finally started to accept what he was. Human. He looked down at his feet and said nothing.

"Cousin..." Silas held his hands out to Julius, in hopes he could pull him into his embrace, but Julius backed away.

"No" Julius mumbled as he backed away. "I can't stay this way. I need to find a way back to the way I was."

"Julius, it's not possible." Silas tried to tell him, but Julius wouldn't listen. I could feel his heart breaking as it was a heavy burden to hear and as it did Julius, I also had to take a step back with the wash of reality that hit us both. He would never be the big, bad Vampyre he once was. So, being a human now, what would happen to him? Would he begin to age and die quickly or would he continue with a normal life span. One did not know. For Julius, being a Vampyre is all he knew for five centuries. He was a Vampyre much longer than he was a human, did he even know how to be human anymore?

"No, I'll find away. I'll be immortal once again, and when I am, I'll come back for her." Julius pointed at me again as he turned his back and walked out of the door.

Silas ran towards the exit and looked out the threshold to see not a trace of Julius anywhere. He had simply vanished.